Weak coherence, no theory of mind, or executive dysfunction? Solving the puzzle of pragmatic language disorders

I Martin, S McDonald - Brain and language, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Deficits in pragmatic language ability are common to a number of clinical populations, for
example, right-hemisphere damage (RHD), Autism and traumatic brain injury (TBI). In these …

Right hemisphere language functions and schizophrenia: the forgotten hemisphere?

RLC Mitchell, TJ Crow - Brain, 2005‏ - academic.oup.com
This review highlights the importance of right hemisphere language functions for successful
social communication and advances the hypothesis that the core deficit in psychosis is a …

[ספר][B] Language, cognition, and the brain: Insights from sign language research

K Emmorey - 2001‏ - taylorfrancis.com
Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration
opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human …

The neurology of syntax: Language use without Broca's area

Y Grodzinsky - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2000‏ - cambridge.org
A new view of the functional role of the left anterior cortex in language use is proposed. The
experimental record indicates that most human linguistic abilities are not localized in this …

[ספר][B] Defining pragmatics

M Ariel - 2010‏ - books.google.com
Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

Acquiredtheory of mind'impairments following stroke

F Happé, H Brownell, E Winner - Cognition, 1999‏ - Elsevier
The ability to attribute thoughts and feelings to self and others (theory of mind') has been
hypothesised to have an innate neural basis and a dedicated cognitive mechanism …

Distinguishing lies from jokes: Theory of mind deficits and discourse interpretation in right hemisphere brain-damaged patients

E Winner, H Brownell, F Happé, A Blum, D Pincus - Brain and language, 1998‏ - Elsevier
Right-hemisphere brain damaged (RHD) patients and a normal control group were tested
for their ability to infer first-and second-order mental states and to understand the …

Coarse semantic coding and discourse comprehension

M Beeman - Right hemisphere language comprehension …, 1998‏ - books.google.com
This chapter proposes that a unique mode of semantic processing by the right hemisphere
(RH) underlies many of its contributions to discourse comprehension (reviewed here and in …

The role of the right hemisphere in processing nonsalient metaphorical meanings: Application of principal components analysis to fMRI data

N Mashal, M Faust, T Hendler - Neuropsychologia, 2005‏ - Elsevier
Some researches indicate that the right hemisphere (RH) has a unique role in
comprehending the figurative meaning of metaphors whereas the results of other studies do …

Neural evidence that utterance-processing entails mentalizing: The case of irony

N Spotorno, E Koun, J Prado, JB Van Der Henst… - NeuroImage, 2012‏ - Elsevier
It is now well established that communicators interpret others' mental states through what
has been called “Theory of Mind”(ToM). From a linguistic-pragmatics perspective, this …